Chengyuan Wang completed his PhD in 2015 with Prof. Qichun Zhang in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN, Japan. Afterwards, he performed research as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the University of Tübingen, Germany. Since 2021, he has been a professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Anhui University. His research focusses on the design, synthesis and application of organic semiconducting materials for optoelectronic devices, organic fluorescent materials and their piezochromizm, and organic photothermal conversion materials for distillation.